Table 2:

Frequency distribution of different types of medication errors

No.	Type of error	Percentage
1	administration of the drugs at the wrong time	30.6
2	wrong technique	21.1
3	wrong dosage	17.7
4	missing a medication dose	16.3
5	administrating additional doses of drugs	8.1
6	administrating the drug to a wrong patient	3.5
7	following the verbal orders of physicians	1.5
8	others	1.2